Mushihime-sama

Mushihime-sama () 虫姫 Mr. ?, lit. Insect Princess) is a manic shooterdeveloped by Cave and released by Taito in 2004. It was ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2005 and iOS in 2011.An Xbox 360 port will be released in May 2012 (with ver1.5 as first print DLC)。 A significantely changed"version 1. 5" was released to arcades in 2011. The game has an insect theme as all of the enemies resemble various insects such as beetles and butterflies. The game is set in various forest environments. It received a sequel in 2006, known as Mushihime-sama Futari and a spin-off iOS game entitled "Mushihime-sama Bug Panic".
Background Story
The world of Mushihimesama is a wild, untainted one where large desertic areas abruptly change into lush forests,all inhabited by arthropods. called Koujuu: such. beasts (basically oversized) insects are capable. of surviving due to. their hardened shells. and, upon their deaths, leave them behind for vegetation to grow around them, in a natural cycle of life and death.However, their life force, called Levi-Sense, proved to be poisonous to the humans to the point of being named the Miasma;. only sparse human settlements were allowed to survive, one of them being the Hoshifuri village, in exchange for the sacrifice of a 15 years. old girl every 200 years. However, the daughter of the royal family, Reco, is apparently the next in line after being given an ornate bracelet by a mysterious boy in Shinju. Forest, where she lost herself at young age: by the day she turns 15, the Miasma contaminates the village.
In order to save her people, she enters Shinju Forest once more, riding the golden Koujuu beetle Kiniro (with which the golden bracelet grants a telepathic link on a quest to meet the Koujuu god himself.

A very highly complete shooting game.
The insect is used as the motif.

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